When students have power : negotiating authority in a critical pedagogy / Ira Shor.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1996Description: xii, 251 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226753549
  • 9780226753546
  • 0226753557
  • 9780226753553
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC196.5.U6 S566 1996
Contents:
1. The Siberian Syndrome: Students as Exiles in the Culture War of the Classroom -- 2. Sharing Power, Democratizing Authority, and Mediating Resistance -- 3. Escaping Siberia: Students Ask, "Why Come to Class?" -- 4. Power-Sharing and the Birth of the "After-Class Group" -- 5. The "After-Class Group" Constructs the Unknown -- 6. Power Is Knowledge -- "Positive Resistance" and "Ultra-Expectations" -- 7. Can Siberia Become a Critical Territory? -- 8. Siberian Harvest: Measuring the Yield of Power-Sharing -- Afterword / Lewis Dimmick
Summary: What happens when teachers share power with students? In this profound book, Ira Shor--the inventor of critical pedagogy in the United States--relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control. Shor provides the reader with a reenactment of one semester that shows what really can happen when one applies the theory and democratizes the classroom. This is the story of one class in which Shor tried to fully share with his students control of the curriculum and of the classroom. After twenty years of practicing critical teaching, he unexpectedly found himself faced with a student uprising that threatened the very possibility of learning. How Shor resolves these problems, while remaining true to his commitment to power-sharing and radical pedagogy, is the crux of the book. Unconventional in both form and substance, this deeply personal work weaves together student voices and thick descriptions of classroom experience with pedagogical theory to illuminate the power relations that must be negotiated if true learning is to take place
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.

1. The Siberian Syndrome: Students as Exiles in the Culture War of the Classroom -- 2. Sharing Power, Democratizing Authority, and Mediating Resistance -- 3. Escaping Siberia: Students Ask, "Why Come to Class?" -- 4. Power-Sharing and the Birth of the "After-Class Group" -- 5. The "After-Class Group" Constructs the Unknown -- 6. Power Is Knowledge -- "Positive Resistance" and "Ultra-Expectations" -- 7. Can Siberia Become a Critical Territory? -- 8. Siberian Harvest: Measuring the Yield of Power-Sharing -- Afterword / Lewis Dimmick

What happens when teachers share power with students? In this profound book, Ira Shor--the inventor of critical pedagogy in the United States--relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control. Shor provides the reader with a reenactment of one semester that shows what really can happen when one applies the theory and democratizes the classroom. This is the story of one class in which Shor tried to fully share with his students control of the curriculum and of the classroom. After twenty years of practicing critical teaching, he unexpectedly found himself faced with a student uprising that threatened the very possibility of learning. How Shor resolves these problems, while remaining true to his commitment to power-sharing and radical pedagogy, is the crux of the book. Unconventional in both form and substance, this deeply personal work weaves together student voices and thick descriptions of classroom experience with pedagogical theory to illuminate the power relations that must be negotiated if true learning is to take place

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